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Kraus, Joseph Martin

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Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)

German composer. He settled in Sweden and became director of music to the king. His opera Proserpina (1781) was revived at the Drottningholm Theatre, near Stockholm, Sweden, in 1981.

He studied law and philosophy at Mainz, Erfurt, and Göttingen, and studied composition with Georg Vogler. He went to Stockholm and remained there as a theatre conductor, becoming music director in 1781. In 1782-87 he travelled widely with a grant from the king of Sweden. In 1788 he succeeded Francesco Uttini as Kapellmeister at Stockholm.

Works

Opera

Soliman II, Aeneas at Carthage (produced 1799), Proserpina (1781).

Sacred

church music; Funeral Cantata for Gustavas III (1792).

Orchestral and chamber

symphonies and overtures; string quartets.



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